Homeschooling – ERIC Digest 151, September 2001
Jihadistan Part II: Defending Against It
In our last episode, we considered the problem of Jihadistan the violent, expansionist Islamic fundamentalism that has created an arc of terror from North Africa through the Middle East and Central Asia to the Philippines and Indonesia, and which is now firmly established in Europe and North America. This session, what to do about it. Six items here. First Read More ›
Government’s Dangerous Prescription
Savaging Donald Rumsfeld
School Bells or Jail Cells?
Fiber-Optic Fables
Darwinism in Denial?
Economic growth options
[From the August 9, 2001 edition of The Washington Times] Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said recently that the economic slowdown might last despite the Fed rate cuts. His comments notwithstanding, there is no reason for us just to sit like toads and wait for some favorable alignment of the stars. We can revive high growth if we so choose. Read More ›
ID as a Theory of Technological Evolution
1. Nature and Art In Book II of the Physics Aristotle remarks, “If the ship-building art were in the wood, it would produce the same results by nature.” Aristotle is here contrasting nature and art. Nature provides the raw materials (here wood); art provides the means for fashioning those materials (here into a ship). For Aristotle, art consists in the Read More ›